Join the #SOHA2020 Virtual Conference to attend the keynote talk with Dr. Alex Aviña. His talk, “Killing Machine: How Mexican and U.S. States of Exception Turned Revolutionaries and Migrants into Bare Life, 1969-1996,” will be held via Zoom on Saturday, September 12 from 1:50 pm to 2:50 pm Pacific Time. Thanks to our co-sponsors UNLV Department of History and UNLV Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies in the College of Liberal Arts.
Dr. Alexander Aviña is an associate professor of history and director of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Dr. Aviña is an academic expert in how the foundations of colonialism, indigenous genocide, empire building, guerilla movements, and configurations of violence have greatly influenced North American histories. Much of his previous work has focused on the oral histories of peasant guerilla, counterinsurgency, and social justice movements in working class and rural Mexico.
His current work interests are documenting the firsthand accounts of the political and socioeconomic factors in Mexican drug wars and state violence in 1960’s and 1970’s. He is also well qualified to discuss Central and South American migrations, political movements, inclusive historical pedagogies, and public/private memories of violence and war. He is an excellent plenary speaker and addition to any conference panel given his broad areas of expertise, oral history experiences and work, interdisciplinary appeal, and personal migration background. His work and insights have been sought by CNN, PBS, Arizona News, various historical podcasts, KJZZ and his book Specters of Revolution was awarded the María Elena Martínez Mexican History Book Prize in 2014.
Learn more about the conference and register at https://www.southwestoralhistory.org/conference.html.
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